| My gold panning great grandad's personal memoir, "The Life and Times of Taam Sze Pui" (Tom See Poy). He left China in 1877 (< 100 yrs after Australia was colonized) and headed for Cooktown, North Queensland. | Tom See Poy. Photos and memoirs of he andhis wife are in the Cooktown Museum, Queensland, Australia. | Tom's wife. | My maternal grandmother got 25 copies printed like this - Chinese above, English below. A photocopy was made available to students at the ANU Dept of History, 1978. |
| "2. Always serve your customers with courtesy and patience. Show them patiently as many samples as you can. If one does not suit them, offer them others. Try to please them in order to extend the trade." | A Long Life - Queensland Art Gallery exhibit of the portraits of Tom See Poy's children, (my grandmother Ida Pearl Quong Chong on right). They appear in Qing Dynasty and Edwardian costumes - a nod to two cultures. | Queensland Art Gallery exhibit of the portraits of Tom See Poy's children, page 1 | Queensland Art Gallery exhibit of the portraits of Tom See Poy's children, page 2 |
